Word Analyzer

Analyzes words to predict audience familiarity and provide insights as to how the use of the word may affect readability metrics.

Word to Analyze:

Definitions and Possible Meanings:

Synonyms and Similar Words:

Remember, not all synonyms are suitable replacements in all contexts. Be sure to consider context, and connotation in addition to readability when choosing an alternatitive word.

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Meta Information

Misspelled:

No

Name:

No

Syllable Count:

2

Audience Familarity Audience Familarity refers to the ability of the audience to recognize and understand a word.

Word Rank:

1949th

Grade Level (Approximate)A 1995 study[1] found that junior high school students were able to recognize between 10,000-12,000 words, whereas college students were able to recognize between 12,000-17,000 words.:

Elementary or Middle School

Fog Reading Ease Complex Word:

No

Dale-Chall Reading Ease Difficult Word:

Yes

About the Word Analyzer

The Word Analyzer provides meta information about a given word, such audience familiarity, to get you insight into how use of the word may affect readability metrics. The analyzer then shows synonyms and related words your audience may be more familiar with.

Determining Word Rank The word rank metric is a measure of word frequency, with frequent words corresponding to higher ranks. In order to get an accurate frequency count of each word, we utilize a stemmer to identify the morphological root form of a word. This allows us to group slight variations of the same word. For example, 'cats' and 'cat' both have the same stem, as do 'readability' and 'readable.' For most words, familiarity with said word is independent of count (e.g. the singular form vs the plural form) or part of speech (e.g. adjective form vs the noun form). In some rare cases, however, a common word may have multiple meanings including a meaning so infrequent it is not well known. We then calculate word frequency using the data from Project Gutenberg which is a large collection of freely available english documents and summing the counts for all variations of the word corresponding to the same stem.